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Carl Sagan Biography

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Name: Carl E. Sagan
Birth Date: November 9, 1934
Death Date: December 20, 1996
Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States
Place of Death: Seattle, Washington, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: astronomer, author, lecturer

Authors and Artists for Young Adults on Carl Sagan

"We start out a million years ago in a small community on some grassy plain; we hunt animals, have children and develop a rich social, sexual and intellectual life, but we know almost nothing about our surroundings. Yet we hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed--and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg, or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being. But we're not fully satisfied with those stories, so we keep broadening the horizon of our myths; and then we discover that there's a totally different way in which the world is constructed and things originate.

"Today, we're still loaded down, and to some extent embarrassed, by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth.

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